" The unemployment rate only measures the proportion who do not find jobs of those who are actively seeking jobs.... " I am off to Canada myself, this year or next year.... Politicians keep promising us government jobs, but no one delivers.".....

When the second wave of Covid-19 was beginning its steep climb in India in April 2021 and most states were locking down, thereby putting a freeze on economic activity, Jitendra Singh feared the worst.... For the Singh family, change came in the form of a computer shop, which they opened with their pooled savings.... Over the next few years, they moved into India's coveted middle-class....